When I went to see The Hobbit in IMAX, they showed this trailer before it.

In 3D. I literally let out a whoop, and I wasn't alone.

It was also shown during my sojourn to see the latest Hungry Games on Monday, and I said every line, and pumped my fist when the MF burst onto the screen.

I'm probably going to spend $200 going to see this movie between me watching it and taking my kids.

I went to see Phantom Menace 11 times in the theater. 9 during its first run, and twice when it re-released in 3D 3 years ago. Note, I just saw the 3D to support getting the OT in 3D, I absolutely hated TPM. Alas, it wasn't to be.

Had Disney gone ahead with those plans, we'd be getting ANH in 3D in 2 weeks...

Well, there was this huge line, so I couldn't buy tickets to day 1. So, when I was buying tickets, I was planning on an all day event. I was going to see every show that day, but it had to be day 2. I hadn't waited in line 6 hours for nothing... So, I had 4 tickets for day 2.

I couldn't wait until then, though, so on release day I drove about 60 miles to the town I grew up in and got tickets to see it in the local rinky dink theater.

So, by day 2, I had gone to see it 5 times.

The other 4 times... Frankly, for 2 I was experience hunting. I had to see it here. I went to see it another time with a friend.

Yes, it was a terrible movie, but it had a handful of great scenes. The lightsaber fight and the podrace.

Digital projection was the new thing Lucas was pushing at the time, so I saw it at all 3 digital theaters in Chicago at the time. Each projection system was different so I wanted to compare.

I saw it the day it came out, and then another few times with different friends. All in, I saw it a total of at least 6 times.

Exactly. Thanks for pointing that out. That cinema I linked above was the only one in about 200 miles of me that had DP.

Interesting anecdote: the cinema that I bought the 4 tickets for one day was where my future wife worked at the time. Technically, she worked at the arcade area (called Funscape), and I spent a good 2 hours there playing Star Wars Trilogy Arcade (I could beat the whole game on 1 credit, I played it so much). She was working there that day, even though we didn't really meet for another 5 years.

1 time with a kid from Nightly.net (y'all remember that place?) who went by the handle Anakin Skywalker. Seriously, he was 14, and I was 21 at the time. His mom had to meet me and everything to make sure I wasn't some To Catch A Predator reject.

1 time with my dad.

Final time was about 6 weeks later when it was dropped to 2 shows per week, and was likely going out of theatres soon.

First showing of 3D re-release (midnight) in Feb 2012.

Last showing of 3D re-release 3 weeks later. With Fandango I knew it was going off the screen the next day.

There's NOTHING in this world like the community of Star Wars fans. I took my 5 y/o to see Big Hero 6 when that trailer came out, and the theater was 90% full, and they were all geeks like me, because it was the first show of the day. About half of them left after the trailer. They spent $8 to watch a 90 second teaser.